BACKGROUND It is well known how often psychiatric patients report religious experiences. These are especially frequent in schizophrenic and epileptic patients as the subject of their delusions. The question we pose is: are there differences between this kind of religious experiences and those we find in religious texts or in the mythological tradition? RESULTS An overview on famous mythologic...

While evidence indicates that religious persons are more generous on average than nonreligious persons, little work has been done to determine if this greater generosity is a general pattern or specific to church-based institutions. Limited research addresses if, or how, religious and nonreligious givers respond to subsidies. This paper uses experimental data to examine differences in the amoun...

Aceh is one of the provinces that adhere to various religions. or commonly dubbed as 'Beumo Seuramo Meukah' predominantly Muslim, course based on Islamic Shari'a and also has a special Qanun formulated in accordance with Islam itself. The adherents religious communities do not rule out possibility conflicts arising from excessive fanaticism so emergence sense intolerance every community. ummah ...

As a theologian working in Western Europe, religious plurality is unavoidable for me. It seems that our context can no longer be identified in terms of secularization. Competing worldviews and complementing religious stories dictate the religious landscape (and increasingly so, due to migration and global communication). The religions present in my country, however, are not monolithic and stabl...

Before a president practically begins his four-year term of office in Iran, a formal inaugural ceremony is held in the parliament. Being attended by national dignitaries and representatives from other countries, the inauguration of Iran's seventh president, Hasan Rouhani, was spectacular in several respects. The current study aimed at investigating the generic structure and rhetorical moves tha...

charity (zakat) has different meanings; one is the literal meaning and the other is the religious one. his excellency ali (peace be upon him) paid his charity (zakat) while praying when he hears a poor man's words asking for help; he donated his signet. different poets have poems about this event.

alain badiou is one of the leading contemporary thinkers whose ideas in philosophy have seriously influenced theological discourse. his thought mainly relies on two pillars, ontology and theory of the event. based on these ideas, he tries to remove religious/spiritual elements of contemporary thought. with his novel mathematical ontology of multiple, he tries to categorize and criticize all the...

BACKGROUND The ATP7A gene encodes the ATP7A protein, which is a trans-Golgi network copper transporter expressed in the brain and other organs. Mutations in this gene cause disorders of copper metabolism, such as Menkes disease. Here we describe the novel and unusual mutation (p.T1048I) in the ATP7A gene of a child with Menkes disease. The mutation affects a conserved DKTGT1048 phosphorylation ...

Acts of terrorism are often associated with Islamic teachings, which lead to a bad stigma against Islam. Cases in Indonesia occur almost every year, the shocking case is Bali bombing killed 202 foreigners. The research aimed analyze problems fanaticism and from perspective criminal law. used descriptive analysis, type normative juridical research. approach was historical conceptual. study showe...